美国最新的一项研究显示，1995年到2008年期间美国遭雷劈死亡的648人中，男性占82％，研究人员表示，男性遭雷击的概率远高于女性的原因主要与他们的行为习惯有关。

Men, that last game of touch football is just not worth it during an approaching storm -- especially when you risk being hit by 200,000 to 300,000 volts¹ of lightning.

Of 648 people killed by lightning in the United States from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male, according to Accuweather.com. This year, there have been six lightning-related deaths -- all male.

According to Popular Science magazine, recreational activities（娱乐活动） or sports are involved in almost half of all lightning-related deaths. Of this year's fatalities², one man was playing golf on a course in Shreveport, La., and another was playing baseball in an open field in Ruby³, S.C.

"Men take more risks when it comes to lightning," said John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist of the National Weather Service, "and men tend to have more outside jobs."

Jensenius said that men being struck by lightning more than women was a behavioral issue.

"Men don't wish to be inconvenienced by a nearby thunderstorm," he said. "Lightning safety is an inconvenience but at the same time, it's one you can live with."

He said the National Weather Service's Lightning Safety program works⁴ very hard to lower lightning fatalities every year. "It's all very sad," he said of the victims. "It's the same problem every year."

"It really doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, you need to be inside when there's a thunderstorm in the area."